<p>I chose companionship, because solitude was never mentioned even though companionship was.</p>
<p>I put his attitude as admirable, because he seemed to point out the nice things about him. It was a tough line to draw though.</p>
<p>The sea was described as tempestuous</p>
<p>I chose exaltation and tempestuous. The question was asking about land and sea–I thought tempestuous wasn’t talking about the sea. It was talking about the voyage on the sea.</p>
<p>At least, that’s what I remember.
I could be wrong, though…</p>
<p>But looking back on it, tempestuous would have to talk about the sea, by definition.</p>
<p>ACK.</p>
<p>For the Bulkington/Pequod (Moby Dick) passage, was the author’s answer to the “vain” question “Perhaps” or “No, Bulkington gains immortality”.</p>
<p>I think I put “Through his struggles, he has gained an independent soul”.</p>
<p>I forgot the phrasing, but hopefully you can get my gist…</p>
<p>I thought the worst one was the one about the woman and the man and their stupid conversation. Were they family members? That’s the impression I got. That was a terrible terrible passage, despite being the least complicated content-wise.</p>
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I put the “he gains immortality” one. There were so many that I couldn’t make a sure-fire answer to, though… it’s frustrating</p>
<p>I put the immortality one just because he’s called a demigod in the next sentence.</p>
<p>Oh, and for that same one, did you put down that the line about him offering the girl his chair reflected his optimism?</p>
<p>The one about the dancing - what did you write the first line emphasized? And did you put down that the ballroom dancing represented an ideal world? Aaaaand, what about the collisions? I think for that one I was debating between events that hurt innocent bystanders or disappointments that cause bitterness.</p>
<p>I put down the independent soul one. And from the conversation between the man and woman I put down that they were recent acquaintances… did you think the passage was a dialogue that showed the personality of the characters? Or a description that relied on imagery?</p>
<p>^ apparently they were acquaintances. but i put “wily adversaries” because they were being really clever about how they were crafting their responses to each other. or so i thought.</p>
<p>last one for me^</p>
<p>how much do u think i can get wrong if i want 700 or +?</p>
<p>Rainbow did you also put adversaries? </p>
<p>you can get like 12 wrong i think.</p>
<p>I thought it was obvious that they had just met one another… The guy sounded like a total tool bag of plastic tools though!</p>
<p>I put immoratality becaues of the phrase “demi god”</p>
<p>sirena,
The collisions represented neither of those. It was an event that could disrupt harmony or something like that. And I put description that relied on imagery; if the passage was dialogue that showed personalities, why even have the whole first half?</p>
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<p>I put self-sacrificing. She see’s how happy he is to be sitting, and notes what a gracious act it must have been for him to offer his seat to her.</p>
<p>They were acquaintances, yes. </p>
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<p>me too</p>
<p>@jenni0z, no I was talking to sirena
wow 12 wrong is really good-hope I got <12 wrong/omitted</p>
<p>haha i laughed at how pathetic</p>
<p>I thought they were acquaintances because the man said “if you had seen me earlier, you would have thought me a rather poor fellow”. Or something like that.</p>
<p>For the last poem, what was the purpose of the word “somewhere”? It was the poem with the woman mourning for a man in sixty-watt gloom.</p>
<p>I put down “to show the eagerness to forget the world outside of the song”, but I was torn between that and “to show obscurity”.</p>
<p>I said the somewheres were used to convey “general obscurity and unease”; however, I didn’t even finish reading that passage, so I could easily be wrong.</p>
<p>It wasn’t independent soul, the passage explicitly stated his knowledge was becoming like God’s.</p>
<p>It was self-sacrificing. He was being nice, and giving up something.</p>
<p>They were acquaintances. I’m gonna make a list</p>
<p>Ballroom Dancing and politics:</p>
<p>1) Collision - break up harmony
2) What was the phone ringing?</p>
<p>The Boat</p>
<p>1) Becoming immortal
2) Applied to just the Pequod</p>
<p>Conversation between man and woman</p>
<p>1) acquaintances
2) Self sacrificing</p>
<p>Woman musician</p>
<p>1) Somewhere’s implied obscurity</p>
<p>I put family b/c it mentions how the “other 4” are together or something like that right before the dialogue starts.</p>
<p>I considered self-sacrificing for that one but the line it cited said that it “added merit to his civility when he didn’t seem disturbed that she declined” so I thought it seemed to emphasize his reaction to her not taking the chair more than him offering it.</p>
<p>The collisions one is tricky… I always try to make sure the answer I put down has specific evidence in the passage, and it didn’t talk much about disrupting harmony. I think the line something like “The nations are bumping into each other, and hurting a lot of people in the process, and we are sick and tired of it” which is why I was torn between being bitter about it, and the innocent bystander one.</p>
<p>Or I could be totally wrong about everything. Ugh, tests like this make me hate how subjective it all is lmao.</p>